The Weight of Mercy: A Novice Pastor on the City Streets Author Ron Kallmier it is also a significant

it is also a significant contribution to debates about the nature of modernity and liberalism

and together they begin to uncover the garden's surprising secrets

" --Mimi Haddad

Kelley brings a depth of experience and clarity of pen to this work of lived theology

org and has published several op-eds in the New York Times

The Weight of Mercy: A Novice Pastor on the City Streets Author Ron Kallmier it is also a significantWhat kind of church nails its doors shut? 'That would be the Triune Mercy Center. 'And I am its pastor.' For 27 years Deb was a journalist in the Deep South. Then she retrained as a Baptist pastor, and accepted a post at the Triune Mercy Center, a run down inner city church where the homeless gathered. It was a shock. Gradually she learned whom she could trust and whom she couldn't. Sometimes the best person to handle a situation was a drug addict.